Entrepreneurship

Entreprenörskap- "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

Entrepreneurs have the courage to choose their own paths in life. They go where few others dare in their continuos effort to follow their vision and fulfill their dreams. They represent the true backbone of our society; creating jobs, stimulating the economy, and searching for improvement. They succeed by being persistent, innovative, stubborn, determined and fiercely independent. In their search for excellence they are willing to pay a mighty price for the things that they consider to be worthwhile.

Most people think it’s all about the idea. It’s not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.

Mark Cuban

I’m convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You’ve got to live beyond your means. You’ve got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths

John Johnson

All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

The only thing that matters is what you accomplish. Everything else is bullshit…The only the consistent characteristic of successful entrepreneurs is the ability to get things done.

Francisco Dao

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Sam Walton

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur.

Wayne Huizenga

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Trip Hawkins

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Thomas J. Watson

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

C. J. Walker

You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn’t going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You’re going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They’re not going to buy it unless they know about it.

Herb Kelleher

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Henry J. Heinz

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Tim Blixseth

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Harold Geneen

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

Craig McCaw

Filling a need that others aren’t addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.

Craig McCaw

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

You’re going to have to have probably five times as much capital as you thought you would. Because if you’re an entrepreneur, you’re optimistic by nature. So you think, in six months, we’re going to be sailing. But that optimism causes you to raise a lot less capital than you need in most cases, and it’s very lonely.

Herb Kelleher

My father said: “Go to school”! And I said “Are you crazy?”

Peter van Stalk

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn’t have tried to improve.

Ernest Gallo

There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

Madam C J Walker

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D Rockefeller

Perseverance is my motto.

Madam C J Walker

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it. I would also say it’s hard not to fool yourself. Everyone tells you how they are going to be “special,” but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Mark Cuban

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, “You can’t. You’ll fail. It won’t work. You don’t have…,” I wouldn’t be here today.

Debbie Fields

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.

Roy Ash

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

You have to be open-minded when those early opportunities present themselves; take advantage of them whether they’re going to make you a lot of money or not.

Rachael Ray

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

John Lennon

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Estee Lauder

It was an extremely satisfying experience. Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Reed Hastings

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are

Howard Hughes

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it. When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Vera Wang

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making a lot of money, chances are he won’t. But if he puts service and quality first, the money will take care of itself. Producing a first-class product that is a real need is a much stronger motivation for success than getting rich.

Joyce Hall

Share your success and help others succeed. Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie’s not big enough, make a bigger pie.

Dave Thomas

What was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

J. K. Rowling

When I talk to college students about all of this, I tell them to work with their strengths, not their weaknesses. If at you’re not good in reading, do something else. Go where you are strong.

Paul Orfalea

If there’s something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don’t want to leave it undone because I’ll sit back and say, why didn’t I do that? Why didn’t I start that business?

Robert Johnson

Life´s too short to be living somebody else´s dream.

Hugh Hefner

I haven’t always done a good job, and I haven’t always been successful, but I know that I have tried.

George Steinbrenner

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Thomas Edison

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

George Steinbrenner

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect .

Adam Osborne

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Anita Roddick

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

George Steinbrenner

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we’ll have.

Rupert Murdoch

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn’t love his work.

David Sarnoff

The razor was looked upon as a joke by all my friends. A common greeting was, “Well, Gillette, how’s the razor?” If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

King Gillette

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Wayne Huizenga

I never, at any period of my life, aspired to become wealthy, but the fierce competition perhaps developed a fighting spirit, and in the effort to secure our share, the business has succeeded. It is my hope that the property that kind Providence has brought me may be helpful to many others, and that I may be found a faithful steward.

W K Kellogg

A constant striving for perfection in every aspect of our business.

Ernest Gallo

Over the past six years I’ve had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.

Robin Li

My confidence was unlimited.

Ernest Gallo

When I talked to business schools occasionally, the professor of management is devastated when I say we didn’t have any plans when we started.

William Hewlett

Success in life depends on who your parents were and what circumstances you grew up in.

Ernest Gallo

Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money.

W K Kellogg

I’ll invest my money in people.

W K Kellogg

We didn’t start our business to see how much money we could make, but to see how good a job we could do.

Joyce Hall

A wide market awaited the manufacturer of food products who set purity and quality above everything else in their preparation.

Henry J. Heinz

I figured I wasn’t as smart as some of the other fellows, so I had to work twice as hard.

Joyce Hall

Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

Paul Orfalea

Building an entirely new sort of business from a single Xerox copy machine…gave me the life the world seemed determined to deny me when I was younger.

Paul Orfalea

I didn’t listen. I knew what I was going to do.

Paul Orfalea

Keep your nose in the window long enough, and they are going to let you in.

Paul Orfalea

Keep your nose in the window long enough, and they are going to let you in.

Paul Orfalea

All I was trying to do was make a living. In those days, if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. And I like to eat.

Joyce Hall

The Lord will provide. It’s a good idea to give the Lord a little help.

Joyce Hall

I’m hell-bent on quality.

Joyce Hall

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Brian Tracy

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

Michael Gerber

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Harland Sanders

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Bo Bennet

Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize the maximum forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

I never thought I’d be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I’ve undertaken I’ve never quite made the mark. But I’ve always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.

Vera Wang

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Keith Rupert Murdoch

If there´´s something I want, nothing stops me.

Calvin Clein

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer.
We consider our customers a part of our organization, and
we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit
in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested
merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human
beings — and they will always come back.

L L Bean

Go work for somebody and get paid to learn. It’s tempting to think you can go off and do your own thing, but there is so much to learn in ways you’d never know.

Vera Wang

I think it was easier to be an entrepreneur in the ’30s than it was in the ’60s and ’70s, and I think it was easier in the 1890s than it was in the ’30s. As society becomes more regulated, it becomes more difficult to launch entrepreneurial ventures. It’s harder today – but not impossible.

Herb Kelleher

You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn’t going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You’re going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They’re not going to buy it unless they know about it.

Herb Kelleher

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

J Paul Getty

Above all, you want to create something you are proud of. That’s always been my philosophy of business. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.

Richard Branson

I was always motivated. Even the things I wasn’t supposed to do, I undertook with great energy, dedication, and perseverance.

Herb Kelleher

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Cesar Ritz

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

It is better to aim at perfection and miss it than to aim at imperfection and hit it.

Thomas Watson

And that’s the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I’ve either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

Terry Matthew

Most of us never recognize opportunity until it goes to work in our competitor’s business.

P. Andarr

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

It was a risk. I had a husband and I was pregnant with my oldest son. But I don’t look at risk the way other people do. When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to go in feeling like you’re going to be successful.

Lilian Vernon

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

P.D. Armour

When the product is right, you don’t have to be a great marketer.

Lee Iacocca

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Charles Revlon

I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold it’s a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

Simon Cowell

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Marshall Field

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Wayne Huizenga

People are what determine your success in the future. Surround yourself with good people and you won’t fail.

Wayne Huizenga

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Martha Stewart

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

Wayne Huizenga

Success is obtaining your goals and objectives. Doing what others do not.

Wayne Huizenga

The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.

Wayne Huizenga

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it’s you.

Edwin H. Land

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Jim Rohn

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don’t compromise.

Simon Cowell

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry Luce

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Lee Iacocca

If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Isaac Mophatlane

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

John D. Wright

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, then progress stops.

Thomas Watson

Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody…And when I come to this space, I’m going to come with talent, I’m going to come with focus. And I’m going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.

Robert Johnson

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.

Jeff Bezos

Behind every adversity is an opportunity. If you lament over the adversity, you will miss the opportunity.

Ajaero Tony Martins

But I think the opportunities are everywhere now. The changes in technology make all things possible. The Internet and all of that make it possible for people to start businesses of all kinds with much less capital than was once true. You can go into publishing by starting your own little Web site.

Hugh Hefner

When I think of invention I always think of America. You’re always seeing ads: “Have you got the next big idea?” There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

Simon Cowell

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

I haven’t done anything particularly harsh. Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

Simon Cowell

I can’t bear political correctness. I don’t like a rule driven life and I hate the fact that you can’t criticize a fat person.

Simon Cowell

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife, and do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you and leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

Hugh Hefner

“Stora innovatörer uppfinner sin marknad.”

Peter Drucker

“En entreprenör är en man som saknar ett hem.”

Refaat El-sayed

“The greater confusion there is on the marketplace. the more opportunities there are for an entrepreneur.”

Mark McCormack

“Ge hjärna, själ hjärta och kropp – allting, till affärerna.”

Nathan Rothschild

My success and my life are a direct reflection of the fact that I am living out a lot of men’s fantasies. The best part of all is that they are my fantasies as well.

If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

Russell Simmons

It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

Russell Simmons

If something doesn’t work, then you know what not to do.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves, they can accomplish.

Russell Simmons

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself – spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising and more time working. Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

Gina Rinehart

Rules are sometimes a problem when you’re a creative entrepreneur.

Russell Simmons

The MBA thing doesn’t matter sometimes. That’s common sense.

Russell Simmons

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

Russell Simmons

Everybody has a great idea, but very few are successful without true focus.

Russell Simmons

That’s the most basic thing: Stick with your vision.

Russell Simmons

You have to stick with what you start.

Russell Simmons

You’ve got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

Russell Simmons

You need to be able to exploit all media. The Internet is the basis for all synergistic opportunities in my companies, but you don’t want to develop that content, put it on the Web, and have no other exposure for it.

Russell Simmons

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I’ve learned one thing in all my years in the business, it’s that often things don’t work out the way you want at first. But that doesn’t mean you should give up.

Russell Simmons

Lyckan är inte att nå sitt mål. Lyckan är att vara på väg.

Ingvar Kamprad

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice; and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

For whatsoever thy hands find to do, do it with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave.

Ecclesiastes 9: 10

Tag kalkylerade risker, det är någonting helt annat än dumdristighet.

George Patton, amerikansk general

Det som inte tar kål på mig gör mig starkare.

Friedrich Nietsche

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.

Larry Ellison

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter.

Peter Drucker

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Peter Drucker

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandler

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have

Zig Ziglar

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

General George Patton

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Bo Bennett

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

David Ogilvy

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labour, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

You’ve got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it – because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don’t you see?

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

One of our biggest problems getting started was money.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

That paid for my gas and the travel needed to get the franchises started. Lots of nights I would sleep in the back of my car so I would have enough money to buy cookers the next day if someone took a franchise.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

It boggles the mind just to think of all the procedures and precautions the company takes to protect m recipe. Especially when I think how [my wife] and I used to operate. She was my packing girl, my warehouse supervisor, my delivery person – you name it. Our garage was the warehouse.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

She’d fill the day’s orders in little paper sacks with cellophane linings and package them for shipment. Then she had to put them on a midnight train.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

Life as I have known it has been ‘Finger Lickin’ Good.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

Don’t be against things so much as for things.

Harland Sanders (grundare KFC)

The digital revolution and e-commerce are just in their infancy, and we’ve been trying to find ways to put our hook into that rocket ship as it goes up.

Gerry Schwartz

I can’t remember a day growing up without my father talking to me about business. If he bought real estate, he’d explain how and why.

Gerry Schwartz

We take an excruciating length of time to buy an asset. We did nothing in the late 1980s because of all the pressure to do deals. That’s not our game.

Gerry Schwartz

Every decision Onex makes is made on the basis of creating long-term value. Our philosophy is to operate like a forever owner of an asset.

Gerry Schwartz

The things I believed in, like value, just didn’t seem to make sense anymore.

Gerry Schwartz

I’m still a long distance from smart. But I’m also a long distance from dumb.

Gerry Schwartz

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

Gerry Schwartz

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Jim Rohn

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got!

Alan Scott

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Jim Rohn

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.

Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

W. Clement Stone

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Jim Rohn

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Robert Collier

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Bo Bennett

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Natalie Clifford Barney

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result.

Zig Ziglar

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me?

Brian Tracy

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Les Brown

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.

Jack Welch

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

James Cash Penney

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Zig Ziglar

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

James Cash Penney

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

We worked every day, Sunday included, until at least ten o’clock at night. I remember it was an event when we quit work on Christmas night at eight o’clock to attend a family reunion.

Walter Davidson

I think people who excel in anything are often totally dedicated to it, but are only really good at one thing.

Ron Joyce

But wait, there’s more!

Ron Popeil

You’d probably expect to spend…

Ron Popeil

When I create something, I believe in it, and I am very passionate about it.

Ron Popeil

First, I see what is needed in the marketplace. The next thing is I ask what’s out there. What you don’t want to do is come up with a product and then find out that someone is successfully marketing a good product and can take business away.

Ron Popeil

You hear about all these people making all this money on paper. And everybody wants to get rich quickly, but they don’t want to work for it. They want to sit back and leverage everything they’ve got to make the big score.

Ron Popeil

I’m not really interested in making money. That’s always come as the result of success, but it’s not been my goal, and I’ve had a tough time proving that to people.

Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.

Steven Spielberg

Serving the needs of others is the only legitimate business today.

A. P. Giannini

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

Over the years, I’ve observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1,440 minutes in each day.

Mary Kay Ash

We must have a theme, a goal a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal.

Mary Kay Ash

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Mary Kay Ash

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch. Give yourself something to work towards constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash

If you act enthusiastic, you become enthusiastic. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights.

Mary Kay Ash

Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out.

Mary Kay Ash

I believe that most successful people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

Mary Kay Ash

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Howard Hughes

The trouble with my life is that I do not think I am cut out to sit behind a desk.

Howard Hughes

I’m convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You’ve got to live beyond your means. You’ve got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

John Johnson

For you’re stronger than you think you are. And what you need–what all men and women need–is an irrevocable act that forces you, on pain of disgrace, jail, or death to be the best you that you can be.

John Johnson

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

John Johnson

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

John Johnson

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

John Johnson

Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay ahead.

John Johnson

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

John Johnson

Failure is a word I don’t accept.

John Johnson

The word I wanted to hear, then and now, was success. The energy I sought, then and now, was the energy that comes from focusing all your powers, like a beam, on a single point.

John Johnson

I used to lock myself up in my office and say the word success out loud, over and over, like a Buddhist monk chanting his mantra. I used to say to myself, ‘John Johnson you can make it, John Johnson, you can make it, John Johnson, you can make it. John Johnson you can make it, John Johnson, you can and must make it.

John Johnson

It’s hard for an entrepreneur to be a great manager. Many great entrepreneurs don’t know how to balance the books. They need someone to do the financial end of the business. A great entrepreneur and a great manager are usually not the same person. The skills are very different.

Don’t try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.

Lillian Vernon

I would advise those starting out to carefully research your niche and know your competition and the marketplace before you start a small business.

Lillian Vernon

I became successful due to several reasons. I never gave up and I never let anyone or anything get in my way. I use the power of positive thinking to tackle obstacles and challenges so they don’t defeat me. Passion for my work and my business is another important reason. I really love my work and I get great satisfaction from it.

Lillian Vernon

There’s no one to stop you but yourself.

Dave Thomas

If there are things you don’t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Dave Thomas

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Dave Thomas

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Dave Thomas

If you want it bad enough…and try hard enough…you can get it ? you can make your dreams come true.

Dave Thomas

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

Dave Thomas

A great leader is someone who practices what they preach. They lead by example, create a sense of loyalty and teamwork, and are active in the community sharing their success with those in need.

Dave Thomas

To be successful, you need to take care of the basics of your business – and that means making sure you don’t overlook the little details.

Dave Thomas

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

Dave Thomas

Share your success and help others succeed. Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie’s not big enough, make a bigger pie.

Dave Thomas

Believe in your dream. People may tell you that you won’t make it, that you’re wasting your time. If you keep your dream in mind, have done your research and are willing to work hard, you can make it come true.

Dave Thomas

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

Dave Thomas

You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.

Dave Thomas

When you greet someone, look them in the eye and say their name. It’s a sign of respect.

Dave Thomas

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. I know I drive some people crazy with what seems to be ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked out for me.

Jim Henson

I don’t resent working long hours. I shouldn’t–I’m the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It’s the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of–and probably what I do best. Not that I don’t enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It’s one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal–or looking at one’s accumulated wealth.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Anthony Robbins I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and […]

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Jim Rohn Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Jim Rohn Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself. Jim Rohn If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go […]

The man who succeeds above his fellow man is the one who early in life clearly discerns his objective, and toward that objective he directs all of his powers. Vince Lombardi The difference between a successful man and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of […]

I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child I have had this […]

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals Zig Ziglar When you are tough on yourself, life is going to […]

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. Napoleon Hill […]

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” Mohammed Ali It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Mohammed Ali It’s lack of faith that makes […]

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie If you believe in what you are doing, […]

Cut your losses short, and let your profits run…

What is good for our customers is also, in the long run, good for us. Ingvar Kamprad Don´t ever make an oral agreement, or trust a handshake. Always put everything down in writing. If you don´t follow this rule even the best lawyers in the world can´t help you. Ingvar Kamprad Once you start to […]

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald Trump What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line. Donald Trump You can’t be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens. Donald Trump Get in, get it done, […]

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. Sam Walton Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. Sam Walton Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. Sam Walton I think I overcame every […]

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise. Ted Turner You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. Ted Turner If you’ve got an innovative idea, and the majority does not poohpooh it, then the odds are you must not have a very good idea. […]

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it. J Willard Marriot Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they never quit. J Willard Marriot Only close attention to the fine […]

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. J Paul Getty Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J Paul Getty In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J Paul Getty The meek shall inherit the earth, but not […]

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems. J C Penney Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it. J C Penney Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of […]

Raise your sights! Blaze new trails!! Compete with the immortals!!! David Ogilvy The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness but it can be more satisfying. David Ogilvy Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. David Ogilvy I believe in the Scottish proverb: “Hard […]

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Ray Kroc If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you […]

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D Rockefeller Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one´s aim. John D Rockefeller The […]

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And […]

Think of yourself as a threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Andrew Carnegie I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to […]

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